Electrical Shift Engineer

£53,000 + Shift Allowance + Excellent Benefits

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3 on / 3 off | Rotating Days & Nights | 6am6pm / 6pm6am

A well-established packaging manufacturing site is looking to strengthen its engineering team with the addition of a Multi-Skilled Engineering Technician at its highly automated production facility
This is an excellent opportunity to join a large-scale manufacturing operation where engineering reliability and fast response times are critical to maintaining production performance and customer service levels.
The successful candidate will be a strong electrically biased engineer with experience working within fast-paced FMCG, packaging, manufacturing, or process environments.

The Role

Working as part of a busy engineering function, you will be responsible for maintaining, fault finding, repairing, and improving a range of automated production and packaging machinery across the site.
Youll play a key role in reducing downtime, improving machine performance, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives within the operation.

Key Responsibilities

• Attending machinery breakdowns and carrying out effective fault finding
• Completing planned preventative maintenance activities
• Diagnosing electrical and mechanical faults on automated equipment
• Supporting continuous improvement and engineering projects
• Assisting with machinery upgrades, installations, and commissioning
• Working closely with production teams to maximise equipment reliability
• Ensuring all engineering activities are completed safely and efficiently
• Maintaining maintenance records and engineering documentation

What Were Looking For

We are keen to speak with engineers who have strong electrical maintenance experience gained within a fast-moving manufacturing or FMCG environment.

Ideal Background

• Time-served Multi-Skilled Engineer / Maintenance Engineer / Shift Engineer
• Strong electrical fault-finding skills
• Previous experience within FMCG, packaging, manufacturing, or process industries
• Apprentice trained, NVQ, City & Guilds, HNC, or equivalent engineering qualification
• Experience working with automated production or packaging xwzovoh machinery
• Ability to fault find on PLC-controlled equipment
• Siemens S7 PLC experience would be highly advantageous
• Knowledge of drives, sensors, relays, motors, pumps, valves, conveyors, and control systems
• Comfortable working within a fast-paced production environment
• Good communication and problem-solving abilities

Benefits

• Salary circa £53,000
• 3 on / 3 off shift pattern offering excellent work-life balance
• Company pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Ongoing training and development
• Long-term career progression opportunities
• Stable and growing manufacturing business
• Supportive engineering team and modern production environment